American Democracy Promotion Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts

by Cox, Michael; Ikenberry, G. John; Inoguchi, Takashi

• ISBN13: 9780199240975
• ISBN10: 0199240973
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is a wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own political image. The contributions given by a distinguished group of analysts are as diverse as they are challenging to traditional ways of thinking about US democracy promotion. As we enter into the 21st century with American hegemony intact, it is vital to understand what drives the world's last remaining superpower, and this original study helps us do precisely that by exploring in detail and depth one of the more contentious and least understood aspects of American foreign policy.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
List of Figure	xi
List of Tables	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
Michael Cox
G. John Ikenberry
Takashi Inoguchi
I: US DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN THEORY
Peace, Liberty and Democracy: Realists and Liberals Contest a Legacy	21	(20)
Michael Doyle
US Democracy Promotion: Realist Reflections	41	(22)
Randall Schweller
US Democracy Promotion: Critical Questions	63	(22)
Steve Smith
II: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AS US `GRAND STRATEGY'?
National Security Liberalism and American Foreign Policy	85	(18)
Tony Smith
America's Liberal grand Strategy: Democracy and National Security in the Post-War Era	103	(24)
G. John Ikenberry
America's Identity, Democracy Promotion and National Interests: Beyond Realism, Beyond Idealism	127	(24)
Henry Nau
III: US Democracy Promotion: The Domestic Context
Promotion of Democracy as a Popular Demand?	151	(30)
Ole R. Holsti
Taking Stock of US Democracy Assistance	181	(19)
Thomas Carothers
`High Stakes' and `Low Intensity Democracy': Understanding America's Policy of Promoting Democracy	200	(18)
Jason Ralph
Wilsonianism Resurgent? The Clinton Administration and the Promotion of Democracy	218	(25)
Michael Cox
IV: US DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN PRACTICE
Russia: Limping Along Towards American Democracy?	243	(24)
Peter Rutland
Three Frameworks in Search of a Policy: US Democracy Promotion in Asia-Pacific	267	(20)
Takashi Inoguchi
The Impasse of Third World Democratization: Africa Revisited	287	(21)
George Sørensen
Promoting Capitalist Polyarchy: The Case of Latin America	308	(18)
William Robinson
American Power, Neo-Liberal Economic Globalization and `Low Intensity Democracy': An Unstable Trinity	326	(19)
Barry Gills
Index	345